Julia Serano: The Case Against ->-bleeped-<-
http://www.tsroadmap.com/notes/index.php/site/comments/julia_serano_the_case_against_ ->-bleeped-<-/ Biologist Julia Serano has published a peer-reviewed analysis of " ->-bleeped-<-," a sex-fueled mental illness created in 1989 by psychologist Ray Blanchard. This theory emerged from a convenience sample that presented at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a group which is unlikely to be a representative sample of the nonclinical trans population. Most trans people avoid the "gender clinic" system of the 1970s, seeking out supportive individual practitioners or using long-established extralegal networks. Since most "gender clinics" are long closed, many people who seek these out are either indigent, low-functioning, enjoy the humiliation of CAMH's regressive forced feminization, and/or find validation in the clinic's diagnoses that they do not find elsewhere (CAMH treats some people considered "pseudotranssexuals" under other theoretical constructs).
Her abstract notes:
->-bleeped-<- is a paraphilic model that states that all male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals who are not exclusively attracted toward men are instead sexually oriented toward the thought or image of themselves as a woman. The assertion that transsexual women are sexually motivated in their transitions challenges the standard model of transsexualism—that is, that transsexuals have a gender identity that is distinct from their sexual orientation and incongruent with their physical sex. This article provides a review of the evidence against ->-bleeped-<- and makes the case that the taxonomy and terminology associated with this theory are both misleading and unnecessarily stigmatizing.
